26 posts tagged ‘Bug’
M4 Mac Issues With Ultrawide Monitors
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Filipe Espósito: As noted by many users on the Apple Community forums, Reddit and even corroborated by a 9to5Mac reader, the M4 Macs seem to break support for some ultrawide monitors. More specifically, those with 5K2K (5120 x 2160) resolution.According to these reports, M4 Macs don’t display the proper resolution options for these monitors, which […]
Two Foreground Windows
Pierre Igot: 1) In the Finder, select an item and make its name editable.2) WHILE THE NAME IS EDITABLE, click on the window of ANY ANOTHER APP to leave the Finder in the background.3) Click on ANOTHER Finder window to bring the Finder back to the foreground.Result: TWO FOREGROUND WINDOWS! This is a really old […]
macOS 15.2 Breaks Bootable Backups
Dave Nanian (Mastodon, 2, Hacker News): Apple broke the replicator. Towards the end of replicating the Data volume, seemingly when it’s about to copy either Preboot or Recovery, it fails with a Resource Busy error.In the past, Resource Busy could be worked around by ensuring the system was kept awake. But this new bug means, […]
macOS 15.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sequoia 15.2 adds Image Playground, an app that lets you create images based on text descriptions. You can type in whatever you like, but Apple will suggest costumes, locations, and items that you can add to an image. You can generate images that resemble […]
Firefox at 20
Kevin Purdy (Hacker News): Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.That relic is no more, as […]
Sequoia Network Extension Memory Leak
Norbert Heger: Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia. […] On macOS 14 Sonoma you may get a hand full of leaks with a […]
macOS 15.1 Firewall Breaks Third-Party Firewalls
Norbert Heger: Apple’s built-in firewall is causing troubles when used together with third-party firewalls that are based on Apple’s Network Extension framework (which is actually the only way for third-party developers to create such firewall products for the Mac). While one of the issues related to DNS lookups has been fixed in macOS 15.1, a […]
OneDrive and Sequoia
Sergiu Gatlan: “Opening or saving files within Desktop or Documents folders can cause the file’s app to freeze. This occurs on macOS 15,” the company said in a Friday update to a support document tracking the recent issues in OneDrive.[…]Until a fix is available, customers should force quit the OpenAndSavePanelService process that hangs because of […]